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Show "BRIEF REVIEW OF A IKS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign Newt Gathered From AH Quarters of the World, and Prep?-wd for Busy Mtn, INTERMOUNTAIN John Shea, a miner of Butte, Mont., was found dead In a rooming house In Pueblo, Colo. He had taken carbolic car-bolic acid. He leaves a family in Butte. Two Greeks were shot, one of them perhaps fatally, in a battle in Bingham, Bing-ham, Utah, between deputy sheriffs and Greeks, early Tuesday morning. The Denver City Tramway company com-pany Is entitled to the use of every street in Denver until 1936, according to a decision of the United States court of appeals handed down Monday. Mon-day. Robbed of $1,000 in gold and locked In his own Ice box for five hours, Ben James, a butcher of Butte, was released re-leased with his hands and feet severely se-verely frozen. A cattle feud of several years' standing stand-ing was resumed Sunday afternoon in Cox canyon, twelve miles south of Du-rango, Du-rango, Colo., on the New Mexico-Colorado state line, when John Graves of Cedar Hill, N. M., shot and probably fatally wounded Samuel Truby of Elco, Colo. , J. C. Moran, a lawyer of Washington Washing-ton and Providence, R. I., has been absent three months and relatives fear t that he has been lost In the Moapa valley in southern Nevada. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a passenger train en route from Copper Flat to Ely, Nev., Sunday Sun-day night. A steel rail had been wedged on the track, but it was discovered dis-covered in time to prevent a wreck. It is not known who made the attempt to wreck the train. The Bingham strike at tne otah Copper property at Bingham, Utah, cost the company in lost profits about $1,500,000, according to the report just made public. The property damage was Inconsequential. Circuit Judge McGinn of Portland, has sentenced William Wilson, a young man, to spend the rest of his days in the penitentiary for holding up and robbing a grocer of $27. Wilson was an escaped "honor man" from the state reformatory, " DOMESTIC So many Democrats have become active candidates for the postmaster-ship postmaster-ship of Terrell, Texas, that a movement move-ment -was set on foot Monday for a special primary election by which one candidate could be determined upon. Harry A. Fox, a high salaried designer de-signer for a Philadelphia fashion house, who committed suicide by drinking poison Monday, is said by his friends to have been driven to his act of desperation over the ever changing styles. There will be no special session of the Illinois legislature for the purpose pur-pose of apportioning the state and electing a United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the removal re-moval of William Lorimer. While their mother looked on, powerless to effect a rescue, the twin children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dowd of Manden, N. D., were cremated cre-mated Monday. The children, aged 2 years, were playing in the kitchen o the home when a lamp exploded. The federal grand jury at Chicago has returned four additional indictments indict-ments against Jack Johnson, champion cham-pion pugilist, on further charges of violations of the Mann act against Interstate transportation of women for immoral purposes. Gov. Woodrow Wilson has announced that he would devote practically all week to state business and would start at the end of the week on a steamship trip and a vacation that will keep him away from political callers or office-seekers office-seekers for nearly six weeks. Joe Fogler of New York spurted into the home stretch at the finish of the six-day bicycle race at the Boston arena Saturday night and won the contest. con-test. With his team-mate, Jimmy Moran Mor-an of Chelsea, he had set a new world's mark for sixty-hour riding, a total distance dis-tance of 1,390.1 miles. J. A. Weyland, owner of the Appeal to Reason, a Socialist paper at Girard, Kan., shot and killed himself Sunday night at his home in that city. Thousands of suffragets marched through the streets of New York City, Saturday night. The parade had been organized to celebrate the map-chang-ing events of October 5, which added four .stars to the list of suffrage states. The enormous sum of $4,171,134,000 represented the farm value of November Novem-ber 1 of the crops of corn, hay, wheat, oats, potatoes, barley, yax seed, rye and buckwheat. Capt. Antoine Le Due, one of the oldest pioneers at the head of the lakes, died at Duluth after an operation. opera-tion. He was born in Canada in December, De-cember, 1S30. The body of J. Roy Morgan, the first American seaman killed in the recent revolution in Nicaragua, was buried in Inglewood cemetery, near Los Ajgeles, on Friday, with military ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt miie a formal statement Monday night bearing upon the electian and the future of the Progressive parry. In line with previous pre-vious expressions of his own and o( his colleagues, he reiterated that the Progressive party has come to stay," and "so far from being over, the battle bat-tle has just begun." President-elect Woodrow Wilson has not decided which one of the Presbyterian churches in Washington he will join. Both the new president and vice-president are Presbyterians. Detective William J. Burns stated at Jackson, .Mich., that he had obtained ob-tained eight .separate confessions from as many Jackson prison convicts, now held in separate police stations, Saturday, Sat-urday, that a plot existed among them to burn everything in the prison tnat could be burned. John Schrank, who shot Colonel Roosevelt, probably will be brought into in-to court in Milwaukee during the week for trial. Schrank is undecided about engaging a lawyer. WASHINGTON Charles Page Bryan, United States embassador to Japan, on Monday tendered ten-dered his resignation to President Taft, who reluctantly accepted it. Mr. Bryan gave ill health, brought on by a carriage accident in Japan, as the reason for his resignation. A word of caution was dropped Monday by the supreme court of the United States to the interstate commerce com-merce commission against issuing orders or-ders based upon its own investigations investiga-tions rather than upon the testimony of witnesses. The British embassador to the United Unit-ed States, James Bryce, will remain at Washington until pending negotiations negotia-tions have been cleared up. These include, it is understood, the question of the Panama canal. A meeting of the sub-committee on legislation of the house banking and currency committee has been called by its chairman. The members are urged to be in Washington within ten days. President Taft spent Sunday in the customary quiet way, going to church at 11 o'clock, accompanied by Major Rhodes and taking a spin in his automobile auto-mobile through Rock Creek park in the afternoon. The reorganization of the national guards and state militias of the country, coun-try, which practically means a revolution revo-lution in the citizen soldiery of the country, is being worked out by the officials of the war department. The details are expected to be made public shortly. Direct wireless communication between be-tween Colon and the new Arlington wireless station at Washington, a distance dis-tance of 1,780 miles, was established Saturday, FOREIGN While the British house of commons com-mons was debating the financial provisions pro-visions of the home rule bill in committee com-mittee Monday afternoon, an unexpected unex-pected vote on an amendment offered by Sir Frederick Banbury, a Unionist member, city of London, resulted in an opposition victory by a majority of 22. In possesison of proof that wealthy land owners in the state of Morelos and other regions overrun with Zapatistas Za-patistas have been furnishing the j rebels with money, the Mexican gov-1 gov-1 ernment has inaugurated a drastic j campaign by arresting Pablo Escan-don, Escan-don, formerly governor of Morelos and high in the councils of the Diaz 1 regime. j. It is stated at Constantinople that ; one of the European powers is en-I en-I couraging the porte to resist to the I end, declaring that the Tchatalja forts j are capable of turning the war to the I interest of Turkey. General Geronimo Trevino, who was recently retired from the army at his ' own request, is suggested as provisional provis-ional president of Mexico in a new revolutionary rev-olutionary manifesto which has just reached Mexico City. , A great area of the city of Canton, China, has been devasted by a fire that broke out early Sunday morning. ! The general postoffice, several goveFn-j goveFn-j ment buildings, the main fire brigade , house, several wharves and more than j 1,000 houses were burned, j Neither I nor the sultan will ever abandon Constantinople. My sovereign will await death in his palace; I in my office." Thus Kiamil Pasha, grand vizier of Turkey, has addressed the ambassadors of the powers. I Gen. Jose Maria Valladares, the ' noted revolutionist, who in years past I has caused much trouble to the gov-I gov-I ernments of Honduras and Nicaragua, I was killed by government troops in a ; skirmish near Ojojona, his native town, j The Bulgarians occupied the town f of Drama on November 5. The Turk-. Turk-. ish troops in that region have been scattered in all directions. Most of ! them have surrendered their arms : and are returning to their homes. ' The Canadian Northern Royal mail j steamer Royal George with 901 passengers pas-sengers cn board,' grounded on the ! locks during a fog in the St. Lawrence Law-rence river near Quebec. Louis Cyr, aged forty-nine, born at St. Cyprien. Quebec, the world's champion cham-pion weight lifter, died Sunday at Mon-) Mon-) treal at his daughter's residence aftei ! a week's illness. Cyr toured Europe, ; exhibited with the Barnura and Ring-ling Ring-ling concerns, and ran a circum Himself Him-self for a time in Canada and the United Uni-ted States. Serious disorders are reported to have broken out in Constantinople, where Kurd soldiers are killing Christians Chris-tians in the Galata quarter, according to a special dispatch from Bucharest, Roumania. |